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Grand Canal of China (113 words) |
 | The Grand Canal of China is the world's oldest and longest canal, far surpassing the next two grand canals of the world: Suez and Panama Canal. |
| The building of the canal began in 486 B.C. during the Wu Dynasty. |
| Grand Canal at the port city of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province about 150 Km Northwest of Shanghai. |
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Grand Canal of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1004 words) |
| After leaving Hangzhou the canal passes round the eastern border of the Lake Tai, surrounding in its course the beautiful city of Suzhou, and then trends in a generally north-westerly direction through the fertile districts of Jiangsu as far as Jingjiang on the Yangtze. |
| In the central portion of the canal, that is between Jingjiang and Qingjiangpu, at which latter place it crosses the dry channel which marks the course of the Huang He (Yellow River) before 1852, the current is strong and difficult to ascend in the upward (northern) journey. |
| On the west side of the canal, at the point where the Yellow river now cuts across it, there is laid down in Chinese maps of the 18th century a dry channel which is described as being followed by the Yellow river before it took the channel it abandoned in 1851-1853. |
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